I did my standard "newbie" posting on the appropriate section. I had some questions about adding a tranny cooler to my 04 Ralliart.

Here's a cut and paste of the questions. One correction, it's got 63,000. Time to get on with a timing belt. F-ing salesman told me it was a 110,000 mile belt. F-me for not checking. Here's to the questions:

I hate automatics, but the sportback doesn't give me any choice. Still, this is the best slushbox that I've ever owned. With 53,000 miles on the car, I think I need to start on preserving the transmission, especially if I'm going to lean on it. With some of the high power auto ralliarts that I've found like the rippmods blower car, I figure this isn't new territory.

Any advice on a transmission cooler? This is a pretty low tech part, and I found some interesting ones on ebay http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...m=360221625485
I figure this would be easy to mount. I don't know how good a heat exchanger it would be, but at least some of the advantage of a cooler comes from the extra fluid capacity.

Is there a deep/finned pan for this application (dumb question, but you never know)?

Does anyone do valve body (shift kit) upgrades? Actually, it doesn't shift like it needs one, and with the electronic control maybe this is an obsolete question. I just want to make it last.

The tire shop quoted me 3 hrs labor for a tranny fluid change (about $350 total). Seems outrageous, but he said that they have to drop the cross member. How hard a job is it?

 

i dont have much input except for the auto tranny fluid change.

i bought the tranny fluid for my auto ralliart. i had about 10 quarts, because it was on sale lol. i went to speedee oil. they did it for 40 bucks. the 10 quarts of auto tranny oil was like 60 bucks. so id say any more than 150 bucks is a complete ripoff. tell them they're retarded lol.